Focusing on coal miners’ occupational disease issues: A comparative analysis between China and the United States

Chen, Hong; Feng, Qun; Long, Ruyin; Qi, Hui

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2012.06.025

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“…The average duration of medical treatment is 9.87 years [74]. People must undergo lung lavage surgery once every two years, with each surgery costing $3299.89 [75].…”

Section: Transportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Monetization of External Costs Using Lifecycle Analysis—A Comparative Case Study of Coal-Fired and Biomass Power Plants in Northeast China

Wang

Watanabe

Xu³

2015

Energies

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Abstract:In this study, the structures of external costs are built in line with coal-fired and biomass power plant life cycle activities in Northeast China. The external cost of coal-fired and biomass power plants was compared, using the lifecycle approach. In addition, the external costs of a biomass power plant are calculated for each stage for comparison with those of a coal-fired power plant. The results highlight that the external costs of a coal-fired plant are 0.072 US $/kWh, which are much higher than that of a biomass power plant, 0.00012 US$/kWh. The external cost of coal-fired power generation is as much as 90% of the current price of electricity generated by coal, while the external cost of a biomass power plant is 1/1000 of the current price of electricity generated by biomass. In addition, for a biomass power plant, the external cost associated with SO2, NOX, and PM2.5 are particularly lower than those of a coal-fired power plant. The prospect of establishing precise estimations for external cost mechanisms and sustainable energy policies is discussed to show a possible direction for future energy schemes in China. The paper has significant value for supporting the biomass power industry and taxing or regulating coal-fired power industry to optimize the energy structure in China. OPEN ACCESSEnergies 2015, 8 1441

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“…The average duration of medical treatment is 9.87 years [74]. People must undergo lung lavage surgery once every two years, with each surgery costing $3299.89 [75].…”

Section: Transportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Monetization of External Costs Using Lifecycle Analysis—A Comparative Case Study of Coal-Fired and Biomass Power Plants in Northeast China

Wang

Watanabe

Xu³

2015

Energies

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“…In China, coal mine accident suffers heavy losses every year. According to statistics, approximately 70% of the coal mine casualties worldwide are estimated to occur in China [7]. 6995 coal workers were killed in various accidents in 2002, which is the maximum record in a single year.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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An Approach for Understanding and Promoting Coal Mine Safety by Exploring Coal Mine Risk Network

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Capturing the interrelations among risks is essential to thoroughly understand and promote coal mining safety. From this standpoint, 105 risks and 135 interrelations among risks had been identified from 126 typical accidents, which were also the foundation of constructing coal mine risk network (CMRN). Based on the complex network theory and Pajek, six parameters (i.e., network diameter, network density, average path length, degree, betweenness, and clustering coefficient) were employed to reveal the topological properties of CMRN. As indicated by the results, CMRN possesses scale-free network property because its cumulative degree distribution obeys power-law distribution. This means that CMRN is robust to random hazard and vulnerable to deliberate attack. CMRN is also a small-world network due to its relatively small average path length as well as high clustering coefficient, implying that accident propagation in CMRN is faster than regular network. Furthermore, the effect of risk control is explored. According to the result, it shows that roof collapse, fire, and gas concentration exceeding limit refer to three most valuable targets for risk control among all the risks. This study will help offer recommendations and proposals for making beforehand strategies that can restrain original risks and reduce accidents.

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“…Because of the particularity of production environment, the variability and unpredictable nature of natural conditions, the accident rate is much higher than other industries. Therefore, the safety production of coal mine enterprises has been highly concerned by the party and the government Chen et al, 2013;Zhang et al, 2016). China's coal output accounts for about 33% of the world's total coal output, while the death toll from the mine accident accounts for about 80% of the world mine fatalities .…”

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“…Safety initiative belongs to the voluntary initiative behavior outside the enterprise, and becomes an important factor to improve the safety performance of the enterprise. Thus, employee safety initiative behavior is selected as the research object in this paper Chen et al, 2013;Martin-Gutierrez, 2017). Evolutionary game theory has been introduced into the field of coal mine safety education Only stay at the evolutionary analysis on game between both sides of enterprise safety education decision-making .…”

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Research on Decision-making Behavior Evolution of Government, Coal Mine Enterprises and Employees under Safe Education

Teng

Wang

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EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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The penalty type education mode for safety production is lack of systematic and comprehensive education thought, education system and education measures, which leads to frequent safety accidents. To promote the safety education level of China's coal mining enterprises, in this study, the government, coal mine enterprises and employees are included in the evolutionary game model to explore the game relation and evolutionary path of the decision-making behavior among the three stakeholders in the safety management and education. It is proved by decision-making dynamic replication analysis, strategy evolution stability analysis and numerical simulated experiment verification that: the decision-making behavior of the government, coal mine enterprises and employees is the result of the mutual game playing among the three stakeholders. It is impossible for the government to leave alone the enterprises adopting the penalty type education mode for safety production. The incentive type education mode for safety production takes active education thought, education system, education measures and so on. It has become an effective driving factor to promote safety education level and motivate employees' safety initiative. When certain conditions are met, the decision-making behavior of three stakeholders of the government, coal mine enterprises and employees can evolve into an ideal state. The evolution process of decision-making behavior of three stakeholders to the ideal state is influenced by many factors. The range of different factors has a differential effect on the convergence rate of the three stakeholders to the ideal state.

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Focusing on coal miners’ occupational disease issues: A comparative analysis between China and the United States

Cited by 71 publications

References 9 publications

Monetization of External Costs Using Lifecycle Analysis—A Comparative Case Study of Coal-Fired and Biomass Power Plants in Northeast China

Monetization of External Costs Using Lifecycle Analysis—A Comparative Case Study of Coal-Fired and Biomass Power Plants in Northeast China

An Approach for Understanding and Promoting Coal Mine Safety by Exploring Coal Mine Risk Network

Research on Decision-making Behavior Evolution of Government, Coal Mine Enterprises and Employees under Safe Education

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